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Shilpi Somaya Gowda was born and raised in Toronto, Canada In college, she spent a summer as a volunteer in an Indian orphanage, which seeded the idea for her first novel, Secret Daughter, published in 2010 It became a New York Times and 1 international bestseller, selling than a million copies worldwide in over 30 languages and countries Secret Daughter was shortlisted for the South African Boeke Literary Prize, longlisted for the IMPAC Dublic Literary Award, and was an IndieNext Great Read and Target Book Club Pick.Her second novel, The Golden Son, was published in 2015 2016 around the world and was also an 1 international bestseller and a Target Book Club Pick The screen rights to both novels have been optioned Shilpi holds an MBA from Stanford University, and a Bachelor s Degree in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was a Morehead Cain scholar She has served on the Advisory Board of the Children s Defense Fund, and is a Patron of Childhaven International, the organization for which she volunteered in India She lives in California with her husband and children.